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WordPress 2.7 Cookbook

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Overview of this book

About 120,000 blogs are created every day. Most of them quickly die, but a few stay, grow up, and then become well known and respected places on the Web. If you are seriously interested in being in the top league, you will need to learn all the tricks of the trade. WordPress 2.7 Cookbook focuses on providing solutions to common WordPress problems, to make sure that your blog will be one of the ones that stay. The author's experience with WordPress enables him to share insights on using WordPress effectively, in a clear and friendly way, giving practical hands-on solutions to WordPress problems, questions, and common tasks ñ from themes to widgets and from SEO to security. Are you feeling limited with WordPress, or are you wondering how popular blogs do a certain kind of thing that you can't? With this cookbook, you will learn many WordPress secrets and techniques, with step-by-step, useful recipes dedicated to achieving a particular goal or solve a particular problem. You'll learn the secret of expensive premium themes, how to optimize your blog for SEO and online profits, and how to supercharge WordPress with killer functions used by the most popular blogs over the Internet.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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WordPress 2.7 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
2
Finding and Installing Themes
1
Index

Chapter 7. Securing yourWordPress Blog

A very important point in managing a blog is security. Even though nobody wants to lose all of their data, security is often neglected by many WordPress users. Hacking into blogs is far more prevalent than you may think. A Google search for 'My blog was hacked' gives a count of around two million web pages.

In this chapter, you'll learn how to protect your blog from various sorts of hacking by creating database backups to protect your wp-admin directory from brute force attacks.

In this chapter, you will learn:

  • Creating manual backups of your WordPress blog

  • Restoring a MySQL backup

  • Creating backups of your WordPress files

  • Using a shell script to create automatic files and database backups

  • Securing your plugins directory

  • Removing a WordPress version from the theme files

  • Getting rid of the Administrator account

  • Automatically forbid login after some failed login attempt

  • Protecting the wp-admin directory against brute force with the help of AskApache plugin

  • Restricting...

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